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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (77384)	6/21/2006 9:28:41 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Cheney-Rumsfield's operatives have taken over the White House, DOD, UN and CIA. It's really a scary situation. Cheney must be job #1 for all Americans to get rid of, then Rumsfield as well. cheney is a real tyrant in sheep's clothing. I think he's a neo-fascist. He is also thoroughly corrupt with his Halliburton no bid deals and energy gouging.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (77384)	6/22/2006 1:24:39 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 81568

What you say is correct and it did certainly look stupid on Bush's part to give Tenet a medal while at the same time making him the fall guy. Listen to that show again, and you may notice the violins playing for the "noble fall guys of the CIA." Portraying the CIA as noble innocents who can't play politics against the Sith Lord Cheney requires certain spinning of the historical record, shall we say. Bush clearly had a good personal relationship with Tenet, but shall we go down a partial list of moves in the campaign the CIA has run against this White House? 1. When Cheney asked for info about the Niger-Iraq connection, instead of sending a qualified person, they sent a former ambassador with a big mouth & a penchant for publicity, who was married to a CIA agent and angling for a position in the Kerry administration. 2. Instead of going & coming back and writing a report, Wilson gave a verbal report to the CIA which did cite a few Iraqi contacts, then published a different version in the NYTimes, asserting that not only did he find NOTHING but that he was a super expert and if found nothing there was nothing to find. And his wife hadn't got him the gig. 2. Cheney asked how come Joe Wilson had been sent? and why was he blabbing his findings in the NYTimes, something that under normal circumstances, the Agency forbids? Absolutely normal questions - to which the normal conclusion was, the Agency is running a campaign against the White House policy. When Libbey, authorized by Cheney, mentioned to reporters that Wilson's wife had got him the gig (something already known to all of Georgetown because a) Wilson has a big mouth and b) the NYTimes op-ed tipped off the few who didn't know already), the Agency rears up in hypocritical outrage and claims that Plame is covert, laws have been broken, and calls for a special counsel, who would up finding that no laws had been broken, but indicted Libbey anyway for perjury. Backed by a chorus of liberals who never cared about national security before or since. 3. Besides all this, the CIA approves Michael Scheur to write a book during the campaign, Imperial Hubris, that blasts the Bush administration, under paper-thin anonymity that soon dissolves. All I can say, would that the CIA were half as efficient running covert ops against America's enemies as they are in running them against the White House. Portraying them as political naifs is ludicrous. Don't you think Frontline could have extended itself to mention that under the US Constitution, the CIA is not in charge of making foreign policy? It is supposed to implement the foreign policy decided on by the President and the Congress.